Every now and then a poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) re-surfaces because people realize that the lines are the very ones that inspired the Beatles to compose lyrics for one of their hits. Information on the connection between the Beatles and Emmett Lee Dickinson is HERE.It has happened again – a Dickinson poem related to a song by the Beatles has re-surfaced. This time, though, the interest is not related to the lyrics of the Beatles. Instead, the lines seem to reflect what is going with the Trump-shutdown of our government.“I am proud to shut down the government,” said Trump. “I will take the mantle of shutting down…I will not blame the Democrats,” he told Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.Now Trump is flip-flopping like a dying fish on a pier – all because he’s the “Wall Nut,” just like the creature mentioned in the lines by Emmett Lee Dickinson (below on the left). ​

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

I am he as he is me and him and heAre we are all togetherSee how I run for pig on a bunSee how I flyI'm whining